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The judge literally hinted at this exact outcome during the hearings, back in May: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-12/epic-apple-judge-hints-at
by dannyw 5y ago
The judge literally hinted at this exact outcome during the hearings, back in May:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-12/epic-apple-judge-hints-at-compromise-in-feud-over-app-store#:~:text=The%20judge%20overseeing%20the%20high,t%20their%20only%20shopping%20option https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-12/epic-appl....
It's not a surprising outcome whatsoever if you followed the trial.
Apple's recent concession on this was reading the room and realising this is the likely outcome.
- danShumway 5y agoI did follow the trial, and actually probably commented on that exact compromise hint at the time (although I'd need to look over my comment history to know for sure). I didn't read a "compromise" as indicating that an injunction was particularly likely, and most of the commentary I read on HN at that time didn't read it that way either. I think people are looking back with the benefit of hindsight at something that was not by any means a generally assumed outcome, even from people who were covering and talking about the trial on HN itself or on other social media sites I followed. A hint that the judge is curious about finding middle grounds in a lawsuit is definitely not a promise of a permanent injunction.